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26 July- 4 August, 1787: The Meeting of the Committee of Detail
“The Continuation of the Scheme” and “Miscellaneous provisions” in Wilson Papers
Tuesday, 24 July 1787
Originally classified as two parts of “Document V” by Max Farrand in his Records and retained by William Ewald, Lorianne Updike Toler in their article "Committee of Detail Documents."
Link to Online Library of Liberty transcription (from Farrand): http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1786#lf0544-02_footnote_nt_169_ref
We’ve dated this document to 24 July, 1787 based on William Ewald’s judgment that “The two sheets are only a sketch, and have the look of something prepared by Wilson for his own purposes, possible in the days before the Committee first met” (Ewald, Committee, 247).
26 July- 4 August, 1787: The Meeting of the Committee of Detail
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- 1 August, 1787: Pierce Butler to Weedon Butler
- 5 August, 1787: James McClurg to James Madison
- 6 August, 1787: George Washington's Diary Entry
- 25 July, 1787: John Jay to George Washington
- 25 July, 1787: Mr. Otto to Comte de Montmorin (French)
- 26 July, 1787: Governor Caswell to R.D. Spaight
- 27 July, 1787: Alexander Martin to Governor Caswell
- 27 July, 1787: George Washington's Diary Entry
- 27 July, 1787: James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson
- 28 July, 1787: James Madison to his father
- Edmund Randolph's Draft of the Constitution (handwritten)
- James Wilson's Draft of the Constitution, Part I (handwritten)
- James Wilson's Draft of the Constitution, Part II (handwritten)
- James Wilson's Second Draft of the Constitution (handwritten)
- Methodology and References
- The Wilson Papers: Historiography Revisited (Again)
- “ Two sets of extracts from the Pinckney Plan” in Wilson Papers
- “Excerpts from the New Jersey and Pinckney Plans” in Wilson Papers
- “Proceedings of the Convention, July 24-26, 1787” by Max Farrand
- “The Continuation of the Scheme” and “Miscellaneous provisions” in Wilson Papers
- “Twenty-Four Referred Resolutions from the Committee of the Whole” in Wilson Papers
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Originally classified as two parts of “Document V” by Max Farrand in his Records and retained by William Ewald, Lorianne Updike Toler in their article "Committee of Detail Documents."
Link to Online Library of Liberty transcription (from Farrand): http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1786#lf0544-02_footnote_nt_169_ref
We’ve dated this document to 24 July, 1787 based on William Ewald’s judgment that “The two sheets are only a sketch, and have the look of something prepared by Wilson for his own purposes, possible in the days before the Committee first met” (Ewald, Committee, 247).
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